Now just 3 away from 500!

It's been a while.  Not quite 18 months like the time between the last 2 posts, but still 5 months.  I guess I'm running out of chips to collect.  Was in Vegas in January and while I didn't come home with any chips, it did send me to the web to get a handful I had been looking at.  13 to be exact, which brings my grand total up to 497.  Just 3 more to go to hit an even 500.  On to the newest 13:

1.  Scoreboard Sports Lounge and Casino - Spring Creek, NV.  Spring Creek is a suburb of Elko off I-80 on the way to Salt Lake City.  It's part of the Northern Star Casinos group which includes 2 casinos in Elko including one names El Capitan.  I kind of want a chip from there now.

2.  Palms - Las Vegas.  New house chip for the Palms.  Which is the home of Rain.  Not Mist.  I actually kind of like it, especially for the Palms.  They don't have the strongest looking collection of chips.

3.  Red Rock 10th Anniversary.  Congrats to the Red Rock on 10 years of taking people's money!

4.  Green Valley Ranch 15th Anniversary.  And congrats to the Green Valley Ranch on 15 years of taking people's money.  Man, I wish their TV show was still on the air.

5.  Lucky Dragon - Las Vegas.  I wish I had made it down to this one, as it's the first Strip casino built from the ground up since 2010.  It's by the City Center complex though and out of walking distance for the 50 hours or so I was in town.  Next time for sure.

6.  Aliante Casino - Las Vegas.  New house chip after being acquired by Boyd Gaming.  Pretty boring.  And very similar to:

7.  Cannery - Las Vegas.  Also a new house chip after being acquired by Boyd Gaming.  All the money was spent on acquisition, I guess.  Nothing left for chip design.

8.  and 9.  Caesars Palace Las Vegas 50th Anniversary Chips.  2 chips for this, one with a view of the casino as it looked in 1966 and one from 2016.  I still don't think this place, or palace if you will, is beeper friendly.  I'll have to check.

10.  Caesars - Lake Tahoe.  Very nice design by the folks in Tahoe as the red chip with black Caesars head looks really sharp.

11.  Tropicana - Laughlin.  Again, a really nice looking chip.  Take note Boyd Gaming!

12.  MGM - Prince George's County, Maryland.  Maryland's newest casino is an MGM property.  I believe the state now has 6.

13.  Nugget - Reno.  New house chip for the Nugget, which is actually in Sparks, not Reno.  But they are practically the same town.  And who has ever heard of Sparks?  At least people are familiar with the biggest little city in the world.  Reno fever, catch it!

Long Time, No Blog

Looks like it's been almost 18 months since my last update.  Fear not, I have not neglected my chip collecting duties over that time.  In fact, I've collected almost one chip per two months gone without blogging.  I am now 8 chips closer to hitting the 500 mark, the new chips bring me just 16 shy.  Now it has been a while since I've gotten some of these chips, so a lot of the pertinent details I've forgotten, but I'll try my best.

1.  The Adventure of the Seas Casino on board a Royal Caribbean cruise ship.  I hope whomever was on this trip had a lovely time and visited some lovely places.

2.  Casesars Windsor.  The 4th "Detroit" casino, it's easily the most recognized structure of the Windsor skyline.

3.  Rivers Casino 5th Anniversary.  Just outside of Chicago.
4.  Rivers Casino.

5.  Hollywood Casino Kansas City.  This one is near the NASCAR track in KC.  Lots going on in KC these days.

6.  Plaza.  Downtown Las Vegas.  Stayed there in January when I visited.  You've been to Vegas too many times when you opt to stay downtown because you're bored with the Strip and "never stayed downtown before."
7.  Plaza Oscar Goodman.  Former Mayor of Las Vegas.  Read a great book about him - Of Rats and Men by John L. Smith.  No, not that John L. Smith.

8.  Casino del Mar - Puerto Rico.  I'm hoping this was from the same person as chip #1.  That would be a lovely trip.

Spring Break '15 Update

Got 6 new chips to add to the collection this April.

First - my parents brought back a chip from the Hard Rock in Tulsa.  This is actually the second chip from Tulsa they've brought me.  

Next are five chips from various Laughlin, Nevada casinos.  My aunt and uncle brought these back for me when they went out to northern Arizona to visit a different aunt and uncle of mine.  I have a small group of people scouring the nation for casino chips for me and their work is much appreciated!  The new Laughlin chips are:

1.  The Avi Resort & Casino.  Cool chip with a satanic owl on it.  I like it!

2.  The Pioneer Casino.

3.  The Edgewater Casino.

4.  The Aquarius Casino & Resort.  Their motto is fun in the sun.  I've not been to Laughlin in many many many years, but I think they have the sun part correct.  Not sure on the fun.

5.  Colorado Belle.  

Casino Chip Show - Battle Creek (part 1 of 4)

For the second consecutive year, I made the trek down to Battle Creek to attend the Great Lakes Chip Show.  This year my brother came along as well.  Before we even left for Cereal City, I got a handful of chips from him.  Some he just gave me out of the goodness of his heart and some he charged me for ($1 under face!).  First, the non-Las Vegas ones:

1.  Overland Hotel Reno - This chip looks old and I would have thought this was from a now-closed Casino but a quick google search shows that you can still book a room at the Overland Hotel on your next trip to Reno!  What?  You don't have a trip to Reno in the works?  Oh.

2.  Hilton Resort Reno

3.  Clarion Hotel Casino Reno

4.  Boomtown Hotel Casino - Jamboree Country - Verdi, NV.  Verdi is about 10 miles west of the Reno/Sparks metroplex.

5.  Gold River Gambling Hall & Resort, Laughlin, NV

6.  Golden Nugget, Laughlin, NV.  Man I wish Tim and Tom would come back and do a Fox reality show on this.

7.  Harrah's Tahoe.

November Update

Three new chips added in November, all purchased on eBay.  I've not yet been to any of the three.

1.  Hollywood Casino - Tunica.

2.  Gold Strike - Tunica.  This chip looks exactly like the Beau Rivage chip (6th one down).

3.  Harrah's Del Rio - Laughlin.  Just called Harrah's now.  According to wiki, the casino was the site of 2002's River Run Riot between the Hell's Angels and the Mongols.  Three were killed and 12 were sent to prison.  Laughlin!